diff --git a/packages/backend/app.yaml b/packages/backend/app.yaml
index f850d72..c090971 100644
--- a/packages/backend/app.yaml
+++ b/packages/backend/app.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Google app engine deployment
-runtime: nodejs16
+runtime: nodejs18
 env: standard
 entrypoint: node index.js
 automatic_scaling: